lawyers ready to go right now. there are people on the front lines that are preparing for the type of deliberate cruelty and again, that is me as a journalist saying this, this is not my opinion. they are saying that it will come again and if you are turning away, you're not going to be able to react to it in a way that will stop them to doing what they wanted to do the first time around. >> and they want to know how they can help and not turn away. thank you for your journalism. thank you for spending this hour with us and for bringing us this film. and thank you for letting us into your homes doing these truly extraordinary times. extrai . hi everyone, it's 5:00 here in new york. i'm lisa menendez in for nicole wallace for a special holiday

edition of deadline white house. donald trump is not even in office yet and trying to claim credit for solving problems that were already being addressed. wednesday evening truck took to social media to claim that he had delivered on his campaign promise to close the u.s. mexico border. posting, quote, just had a wonderful conversation with the new president of mexico, claudia sheinbaum pardo. she has agreed to stop migration through mexico into the united states effectively closing our southern border. it was a very productive conversation. a 25% tariff on all goods. claiming that if mexico did not end the flow of migrants and fentanyl into the u.s., he would keep the tariff in place indefinitely. more than a few problems with all that to begin with. those tariffs would potentially violate america's own free trade deal with mexico and with canada. a deal his first administration

brokered. it would also raise prices. as the mexican president also warned there could be retaliation as well. saying, quote, if there is a tariff, another one will come in response and so on until we put common companies at risk. companies like general motors and ford and stelantis. each of which have major manufacturing presences in mexico. beyond all that, what he proposed to solve is already being addressed. the high border crossings has already reached record lows. border arrests dropped this year. in large part because of policies implemented by president biden. who has already effectively closed the southern border. when it comes to fentanyl, american citizens are responsible for the majority of what is smuggled into the united states. that's according to u.s. customs and border protection. but despite all of that, trump is trying to declare victory after his conversation with mexico's president. the problem is she remembers

that call differently. she corrected the record on social media yesterday writing quote in our conversation with president trump, i explained to him comprehensive strategy that mexico has followed to address the immiate that mexico's position is not to close boreds but instead build bridges between government and people. all this is happening more than seven weeks before trump even takes office. that's where we start this hour with professor of economics and public policy at the university of michigan. plus, host of mornings on sirius xm. and msnbc political analyst david jolly. david, let me start with you. i want to get to the tariffs and how none of it makes economic sense. especially if you were elected because americans were angry about the high price of goods. that's not really what this is

about. to me, what this story is about is the fact this man is not yet in office. he is not yet in power. he is claiming victory for things that he has not in fact accomplished. and it is a reminder of what the first four years were. and what the next four years could be. and my question to you is what have we learned about how you call bs? >> so part of it, what have we learned about how to fact check it, donald trump is a fictional president who is a story teller and a pied piper whose followers will believe whatever he sends out on truth social. someone who simply by suggesting he wins now, the economy is better, the border is better, peace is better. all these other things. and earth one as nicole likes to say, those simply are not the facts. to the point of where credit is

due, joe biden has a remarkable four years to point to. donald trump is a story teller and will tell a story that many americans will follow. i think it is on the free press and people with conviction throughout the united states to recognize that maybe what he is telling is not always true. i think this is also an introduction of what we are about to walk into. particularly as he stumbles. right? this is a transition period. all the focus is on the incoming president. you could fault the white house perhaps for not playing a little more offense right now. but he will walk into an environment where he is due to stumble. whether it is tariffs, russia, surrendering to vladimir putin. saying that turkey, you can have as much of syria as you want. he will tell lies to cover those up. right now, he is telling lies about american successes.

to claim credit for it as though they had voted for it. it is interesting you have the president of mexico, that is not how the call happened and that is not how policy works. what have we learned as we need to move forward? >> we have to learn that the information infrastructure is way too siloed and the fact that so many americans bought into lies told to them by donald trump and donald trump's media allies and congress. essentially saying the same fictional stories to david's point. about donald trump's plans for the country and what he would do if he were reelected. and i think now, i feel like i went into a time machine to the bad place. and it is important to brace yourself for what's to come.

it is important we do the fact checking. the lies, that donald trump essentially has run for president three times now. putting forward ideas, not policies that won't do anything to solve the problems he is complaining about. and unfortunately, too many americans bought into lies being repeated to them in those media environments on the right wing that are not telling the truth about his plans, and the real consequences for the american public. >> so let's drill down on those policies. you have exit polls showing trump's victory is due in large part to voter anxiety about the economy. and immigration. telling to me on something like mass deportation, you have heads of ag coming out saying not us. you understand this is not economically viable. what would the impact of the tariffs, he suggested for the largest trading partner end mass deportation be to this

country? >> the tariff one is easy. the goods you import into the country. so i think about the stuff you are buying from abroad. all sorts of goods. all of those if they are coming from canada or mexico which are the largest trading partners when it comes to things like fruit and vegetables. they will go up 25%. think about things like the auto industry. coming to you from just outside detroit. you have a lot on the other side of the canadian border. to make goods back and forth. that is creating all sorts of uncertainty. you have crisis meetings going on in big businesses all around the country. basically trying to figure out how to work around what looked to be a very destructive set of policies. >> steve bannon wrote about this door all of this opens to grift writing quote keep an eye

on the corruption angle. when tariffs are imposed, administrations often create loopholes and exceptions. opening the door to lobbyists eager to deal. don't be surprised if the trump white house starts making assessments about companies and industries that play ball in ways that the incoming president likes. buckle up. >> a president funding his transition activities without any sunlight or disclosure including perhaps foreign money. a president who has suggested that i will flaunt any rules there are. and then test me. and it will take you two years to catch up to me. what can you do to check all of this? i had a theory to talk about this on this show. which applies both to the democratic party, but also to the media and americans of conviction. in some ways, the democratic party today is burdened with being the responsible party. the media is burdened with

being the responsible actor, american voters who are trying to check all of this grift and this graft are responsible for being the check on this when half the country has said we don't care about being responsible. we just want to be selfish and donald trump is letting us be selfish. if part of us winning is allowing him to engage in grift and graft and allow him to engage in back handed commerce we don't see, we're allowed to go along with that. and what is really unsettling about it is coming off of the election, those who have tried to act responsibly feel the pain of the loss. we didn't wake up after the election and think oh, i'm upset because i was wrong. we are upset because we know we are right but we are on the losing side of this battle so what does that mean for a responsible media, for responsible democratic party in this environment? the only answer is to double down and holding donald trump and his allies accountable and double down on trying to present a democracy that represents all people even in a

losing environment. >> what does that mean? >> it mean to keep doing what you are doing. i understand the autopsy report. let's not overreact to this. you didn't come out of the election upset because you knew you were wrong. you knew you were right. but you lost. so don't change the fundamental values. don't just say we are going to give equity to donald trump which some people are doing. and the democratic party, in media, they say i give up. we're going to give him equity. we are going to give him party to traditional american values. know that is absolutely wrong. you can't do that. you can't go to mar-a-lago. you can't do it. you'll get me in trouble. you can't do that. you have to hold him accountable for being wrong and all of his allies accountable for being wrong. even if that means you are in a losing environment threatening your own liberty and your own

security as an american. >> watch me do the same in response. the fact that you are going to have the u.s. mexico canada trade deal come back to the negotiating table and just about a year. there is a lot here that is volatile for american consumers. >> yeah. look. what an extraordinary moment that the first country the united states decides to clobber after the election is those evil doers across the border at canada. didn't see that.coming. trump was honest on the one hand. called himself tariff man. extraordinarily dishonest on the other. he actually laid out a policy. he said 60% tariffs against china. 10% against every other country

in the world. and three weeks later that is all out the window. the original policy wasn't thought through. this wasn't wasn't thought through and it will be riddled with all sorts of exceptions. last time trump did this, there were over 2,000 exceptions that were made for individual companies or individual goods that decided where the white house was able to decide we want to hit most people but not our mates. >> how do you account for that uneven playing field? >> well there is an uneven playing field. because donald trump has never been competent and is showing himself to be competent again. all of the warnings that people were saying like david and myself and all of the other folks in the mainstream media warning about a second trump term, he simply lost in a very close election with more than half of the country not participating which is something we really need to work on.

and i think that now the real consequences for the american public. that's what i'm focused on every single day. the consequences of donald trump's incompetence. the consequences of donald trump's corruption and the fact he is flouting norms that should essentially be laws in this moment. and we were in a very dangerous situation because we find ourselves in a position that could have been avoided but wasn't. and now, we have to make sure that we mitigate that damage. >> thank you so much for getting us started. you are sticking with me. before you go, if you watch nicole's special about the separated documentary and want an early look at the film before its msnbc premier it is playing this tuesday, december 3rd here in new york city. the ifc center with an in- person q and a following the screening with both jacob sobrov and morris. you can scan the qr code on your screen for tickets. it is worth seeing.

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scott bessent as treasury secretary. serious business conflicts of interest. critics say the intersection of business interest and government policy during trump's second term would be more complex and potentially problematic than in previous administrations. increasing the danger government ethics standards could be flouted or ignored. we are looking at potentially the greatest ethics cataclysm in the history of our government. we are back with david and zerlina. i'm old enough to remember when donald trump pledged to drain the swamp. i am amazed that he somehow managed to run as an outsider given he has already served as president. >> did donald trump tell a lie? that never happened before ever in the history of life. i think one of the things i have been thinking a lot about

is how the corruption is in plain sight. if the shoe was on the other foot and democrats were doing this, there would be a cloud chorus of people in the conservative media playing with that problem. that's what we need to be doing now. we don't need a cabinet full of wealthy americans. being wealthy doesn't mean you are better or smarter than any other person. that making sure competent people are in positions of power within our government is important if you want to function in government. but i think big picture, that is not what donald trump in this administration is about. if we think about what is in project 2025, the entire goal of this administration is to dismantle the functioning of our federal government. that's the point of it. so if that is your goal, these are the people you put in positions of power. >> and it is why the new show no reverence for the ways that things have been done, this from the new york times, the

reporting that the trump transition has refused to find illegally binding transition agreement with the general services administration. they can raise large amounts without disclosing who the donors are. >> donald trump learned a lot by his first administration, he was using acting secretaries because he knew they were out of reach and learned about the latency of accountability. if you consider the impeachment charges, he knew it will take years for the court system to catch up to me so i think you are seeing that play out in the transition. the fascinating thing with his economic appointments is twofold. first, this is someone so desperate for the respect of wall street. if there are more traditional picks in his economic advisers it is because of this insecurity he has always had. that he has not been respected by wall street. second it shows he is willing to have relatively traditional

republican views when it comes to trickle down, unleashing private money into the economy and just burning the economy until it fizzles out because he knows he will be gone and he surrounds himself with people who believe that. whether it is crushing the independence of the federal reserve, a tariff war that yeah, we might have it here, but we will give away money to the agriculture economy here. he put people in place to do that. that is something he learned in his first administration. don't surround myself with checks. >> not only do you have to trump transition not bound but the ethics pledge, it doesn't appear to include the president- elect. it does not include language

about his own ethical conduct. a new provision added after ethical issues dodged the first trump administration. i feel like i'm going back to the first answer where you were shocked to find that donald trump was lying again. but to me it speaks to david's point. about what they learned during those first four years and deciding that certain things are rules and certain things are suggestions. >> and the problem when things are just suggestions is we know that they are not going to follow them. we are talking about a convicted felon that became president again and he won't follow them even if they are written down as laws. that is why we need all of the levers of power working quickly and we didn't have that. he learned that from his business career, dragging things out in the legal process is his mo so he just applied that so many of the legal challenges and ethical

challenges he faced in the first term, going back to project 2025, they learned a lot from the guardrails in place to stop donald trump from implementing his worst impulses and they put that in a 900 page document to ensure that he did not have those barriers in his second term. and now we are going to have to live through that and hope the consequences are not as bad as they could potentially be because they are incompetent. hanging your hat on they are so incompetent they won't be able to do these things is not really a reassuring thought. but in this particular moment there is a lot of damage they can do in just four years now. and we are going to see that unfold as he takes power. >> i agree with you given the emphasis we are seeing on executive action in the first six months. you are sticking with us the rest of the hour, coming up, it's not enough the doj is winding down its cases against donald trump. his allies are calling on tish

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drop her civil fraud case against trump too. he owe it is state of new york 4 money $50 million in damages because james won her case against trump in february. but his lawyer argues that overturning that judgment is quote for the greater good of the country. the trump legal team awaits. trump is plotting to fulfill his promise of retribution. he plan to fire the entire legal team that worked with jack smith on trump's two federal prosecutions. he reportedly wants to quote clean out the bad guys. the people who went after him. if his pick to lead the justice department is confirmed he will have a new ally in that crusade. pam bondi. >> the department of justice, the prosecutors will be prosecuted. the investigators will be investigated. >> i'm joined by andrew

weissman. david jolly. zarlina maxwell. you might have to reconsider the name of that podcast. talk to me about the new york civil case and the argument it is for the good of the country. >> well it is preposterous. it is a civil case where it is now on appeal. there has been a trial. donald trump lost and he made his arguments no the appellate court and they will decide if there's some or no merit to it. civil cases proceed even when someone is the president-elect or the president. think about the civil case brought against bill clinton when he was president. and he had to sit for a deposition while he was in the

white house. if you can do that, this case can certainly go forward where it is actually already been concluded so i don't see any merit to it at since it is an independent state case. >> it follows through about donald trump's alleged plan to follow through. i mean, what does that mean for doj? or the future of holding donald trump accountable? >> referee: think the dangerous part of this is that there is tradition of civil service at the state and federal level and certainly at the department of

justice. meaning that you don't want career people to simply be replaced by political operatives because frankly, it is run by people who think that the facts and the law matter. so for anyone to just say i'm going to fire everyone on a certain investigation, that will be found by the merit system protection board to be illegal. donald trump would have to change the law and he would have to change it dramatically and retro actively. if you want an example of something that happened where you can see if you take this kind of action it won't work is the steps they took with andy mccabe, the acting head of the fbi after james comey and he brought a civil suit challenging his firing and he

prevailed and won and he was reinstated and got back pay and his pension. and all of that. that is something we want whether a republican or a democrat is in the white house, that kind of system where you have career people carrying out the rule of law ising the you really want. i wouldn't say i'm cautiously optimistic but cautiously pessimistic. when pam bondi didn't quite say she was going to go after all of jack smith's team, just the bad ones. so i think she herself in that language, even if she were to still stick to that language at her confirmation hearing, she is suggesting it will painting with a broad brush. she is somebody with a long career as a prosecutor and knows grand juries found the

facts here there are judges who found there was no prosecutorial misconduct here. no selective prosecution by jack smith's team so this is one where there may be a lot of saber rattling by donald trump which can itself be pernicious but it remain to be seen if they will really carry it out. >> are you as cautiously pessimistic about pam bondi there? >> i am. you know, she is not a matt gaetz. but let's take it back to leticia james. james' response will be too simple. go pound sand. we have heard from others on the hill the interest and effort to interfere with state and local prosecutions and the effort to oversee the department of justice in ways that hasn't been done. >> or turn it into a political conversation instead of a legal

one. >> and in pam bondi they have an ally. i think her confirmation hearing will be so informative to the american people. she will are to answer, what is the role of the department of justice. she moved from a jeb bush republican to a donald trump republican. we will see her say we will just go after the bad ones without saying what that means and if leticia james' office needs oversight we will provide it. she will do donald trump's bidding. the question remains. is there a line too far? we saw one with bill barr who came in but had a line too far. we haven't seen pam bondi's line yet. >> i want to rule something else you said. that we need to stay focused on the consequences of this. and obviously there are consequences for these career

officials. there is the bigger consequence. a two tear system of justice. now there is a third tier. one that is solely and exclusively for donald trump and his specific allies. that has consequences for the rest of us. >> that's right. we like to say no man is above the law but we have demonstrated here that is not true any longer. donald trump is above the law and he is trying to flout the law while also gearing up to mass deport millions of undocumented people for law breaking. and i think that is a point that isn't often made that the crime as alleged by many of these far right republicans is we need to deport these people because they are criminals. while they are all supporting and walking with somebody who is a convicted felon. somebody who flouts the law when ever possible. when ever it is beneficial to him politically or personally.

and i think that is something if you are a person of color. a black person in this country. you knew there were two tiers of justice. we have to get back to the fact we want equal justice under the law. that's the goal. and we are not living up to that in any way, shape, or form. >> thank you so much for being with us. for bringing us your expertise. up next. in a shock offensive, syrian insurgents have reached the city of alepo for the first time in years. that and more out of ukraine is next. don't go anywhere. ukraine is next. don't go anywhere.

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as the trump administration's foreign policy team is coming into focus, so, too, the scope of challenges before them. in syria, insurgents today clashed with government forces in aleppo. in lebanon, a fragile u.s. backed cease fire between israel and hezbollah holds. despite an air strike, israel says was targeting militants violating the terms of the deal. russia launched a massive strike on ukrainian energy infrastructure in what it claims was retaliation for kyiv using long range american officials. joining us now. start with syria. two car bombings today in

aleppo. a scene we have not seen since 2016. where do you see this going? >> i don't see it going very far. the reason is my experience with handling syria the rebel factions and the opposition are not very well organized or coordinated. they are generally weak. and i believe they were taking advantage because they thought president assad must be in a position of weakness. russia is distracted now. but almost immediately, russia stepped in to shoot back at the rebel groups in the northern part of syria. their stronghold. to me, this means while they have made this effort, i anticipate it getting escalating if you will, but i don't expect the opposition to

hold aleppo very long. >> explain to me about the fragility and the possibility of the stakes rising just as a new administration is coming into power. >> it is an interesting time in the middle east. you have now hezbollah significantly weakened. it is not easy to weaken a terrorist group like hezbollah. but the mayorty of their mannedders have been killed off. the lebanese government has the ability to assert control in the south. this is a test for them to see if they can troll the south and ensure it remains disarmed and that hezbollah doesn't come beakiering its ugly head. i'm not sure if this cease fear will hold.

i this it will and won't. but hezbollah has shown it has no fear in pushing back if they see anything that undermines the deals of the cease fire. but what this cease fire shows in general, you have a weakness on the part of this access of recitizen tans. all of them are on their heels now. that could lead to a cease fire with hamas in gaza. i wouldn't say that is very likely. but all of them are on their back foot now. iran is a state actor. they don't want to fight on behalf of hezbollah and hamas. >> reporter: we heard so much about challenges at home and less about challenges abroad, but this is a reminder of how high the stakes are. >> it is remarkable we are not having a conversation about a widespread war in the middle

east. the trick will be for donald trump, a cease fire in gaza ends when netanyahu and israel controls all of it. and the ukraine russia war ends when ukraine surrenders. what we saw previously is a willingness to donald trump to abandon our allies and say to turkey go ahead and take whatever you want. the transactional nature of a donald trump administration in the midst of what looks like a full blown war in the middle east should be very disconcerting. >> army general keith kellogg

authored a proposal arguing to pull weapons from ukraine if it doesn't enter peace talks with russia. your thoughts? >> yes. so the trump team has been touting a deal to get zelenskyy and putin to come to the table. zelenskyy, they are threatening to pull aid, and putin, if he doesn't negotiate in good faith they will pump aid in. suppose a deal where they would pressure zelenskyy to give up a certain, to freeze the front line as they have it. meaning where the 20% of land that russia currently occupy ins ukraine would remain under russian control and ukraine would promise not to become a member of nato. and zelenskyy implied at least, very recently he would be open to a deal that would seed some territory if he were under the nato umbrella. which means nato members would

pledge toaster ukraine to ukraine that they wouldn't attack again. you will see trump using every lever we have. the u.s. has the greatest number of levers of anyone in the world. we pull those levers and so he will use those levers and on both sides to try and cut deals where he can. which on one hand, you could say okay, less war, great. but when it come to ukraine, everybody learned with world war ii, you never appease an aggressor. that is lesson number one. don't say i will just give you this chunk of land. usually that only incentivizes them to pursue more aggression. that's the concern here. that's why the biden administration has been so tough on ensuring we defend

ukraine. they are very afraid genuinely that not supporting ukraine to really push russia back could up end this international order we have and could only incentivize putin to go to georgia, maldova and elsewhere. >> it gets to the conversation we were having earlier which is donald trump convinced people of this concept of america first. convinced them any dollars that were spent in foreign conflicts had nothing to do with the united states. could never reach our shores. as you watch these challenges play out in the middle east n ukraine, it is a reminder if you care about democracy, not simply in a conceptual way, the threats of what is happening abroad is very real to our own safe tiff and our own security. >> yeah. i think that the conversation

that we were having earlier when we were talking tariffs. and donald trump was tweeting about the conversation with the president of mexico and she corrected it. we are looking at a second trump administration that is transactional actional but everybody else in the world has also dealt with a first trump administration. they know what buttons to press. what compliments to give him and make him feel like he is the king of the world or the king of america. and so i feel like in a lot of ways you will see in the coming years all of the myriad foreign policy crisis, they are going to rise or fall based on whether or not donald trump feels good about himself or whether or not he has been a good negotiator. that's the scariest part for me. and i feel like we actually need to talk more about these foreign policy challenges because we don't have an

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is a choice. and so they are trying to send that exact message through survivors everywhere that your voices and stories don't matter. it makes me really sad but i have been really sad since 2016 since the access hollywood tape dropped and the u.s. still elected the person who said you could do anything to a woman as president. we are in a reckoning moment. this smells like a backlash to the me too movement some folks think went too far but i would argue didn't go far enough in eliminating people who engage in acts of alleged sexual misconduct from the public space. it sends a horrifying message to survivors and people who love survivors. everybody knows somebody who has survived a sexual assault. >> this was not just about vetting. this was about the moral

standing. >> a long time ago. america just selected a man found liable for sexual abuse and a convicted criminal. but someone found civilly liable for sexual abuse. i think the fascinating thing about his nominations is he is testing the theory that perhaps these allegations no longer matter and that is less about donald trump and more about who we are as a country and a culture. and the people who voted for donald trump are actually okay elevating people into that position, i'm afraid we have crossed the fulcrum. we have an ignorant electorate. that is an indictment of the american people. there is no whitewashing this. there is no sane washing this. donald trump was found civilly liable for sexual abuse. his nominations have been credibly alleged of sexual misconduct and the american people voted for this. >> that is the scary message.

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